Harry Turtledove

When does silent compliance with an oppressive regime become unbearable? For Charlie Simpkins, the manager of a vegetable shop in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, part of the West Coast People's Democratic Republic, the breaking point comes when he is asked to display a poster in his shop window.

Harry Turtledove earned the title "master of alternate history" from Publishers Weekly for his thought-provoking novels that turn historical facts into gripping tales of possibility. But his writing talent goes much further.

For three long years, the militant Chleuh have occupied the Kingdom of Quimper and its great capital, Lutesse. Times are hard since they won the war. There’s not much food or fuel—the Chleuh take anything that isn’t nailed down.

A great leader rises when forced to defend his troubled lands against an onslaught of monsters in the second book of this remarkable fantasy series featuring Gerin the Fox.

Before Hugo Award winner Harry Turtledove became known far and wide as the king of alternate history, he introduced himself to the world with Werenight, carrying listeners into a remarkable realm of war and magic.

More than four centuries ago, the Scepter of Mercy was lost to the king of Avornis, and each subsequent liege has promised—and failed—to return the powerful talisman to its rightful home. Now, young Lanius, the only surviving son of King Mergus, rules.

A patriarchal society reacts to this devastating disease in the only way it knows how: it sequesters women as much as possible, limiting contacts between the sexes except for married couples. While imperfect, such drastic actions do limit the spread of the disease....

Harry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, turns to time travel in these two related novellas that range from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient....

1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge....

As Britain faces the full fury of the Nazi war machine, hope comes in the form of American volunteers called the Eagle Squadrons. As these units join their RAF cousins during the Battle of Britain, famous woman aviator Amelia Earhart....

In the Hereditary Tyranny of Tartesh, what was once a vast sea basin is now a dried-out, unforgiving desert....

After the extinction asteroid doesn't strike Earth, the dinosaurs keep evolving - but so do the mammals....

A famous naturalist seeks a near-extinct species of bird found only on the rarest of lands in "Audubon in Atlantis"....

In 1914, they called it The Great War, and few could imagine anything worse. For nearly three decades, a peace forged in blood and fatigue has held sway in North America....

Atlantis lies between Europe and the East Coast of Terranova....

No one could stop them - not Stalin, not Togo, not Churchill, not Roosevelt....

An alien assault changed everything. Nuclear destruction engulfed major cities, and the invaders claimed half the planet before an uneasy peace could be achieved....

David Fisher pushes paper for the EPA in a world that's a lot like ours...only different. In this California - and in the alternate US - gods are real, science doesn't exist, and magic rules everything, running imp-driven computers and creating bumper-to-bumper flying-carpet rush hours....

The Man with the Iron Heart is the gripping story of the hunt for Rienhard Heydrisch and of the effort to suppress urban guerrilla warfare sixty years before we really run into it in Iraq....

In 1914, the First World War ignited a brutal conflict in North America, with the United States finally defeating the Confederate States....